Open Rights Group Inaugural Event

As I said the other day, on Tuesday evening I headed down to London for the Open Rights Group (ORG) digital rights event.

It was an interesting evening. As the group is very new, it is still finding its direction, and choosing its battles; so as a result the meeting was a collection of concurrent group brainstorming sessions. I’m surprised there hasn’t been more discussion of the event on peoples blogs, but maybe that will come when ORG wiki is in place and the notes from the meeting are collated there.

Rather than summarize and provide all the links to the speakers, some of the attendees, etc., I’ll just point you at this write-up over on Preoccupations.

I still haven’t worked out what I’ll take from the meeting. These non-technical - political? moral? ethical? - computing issues are important. If nothing else, there’ll probably be greater coverage of them in this blog.